Steve Whitmire, the puppeteer who was fired after 27 years as Kermit the Frog has said he is "devastated to have failed" Muppets founder and his mentor Jim Henson. He would not say what those reasons were, nor would Muppet Studio or its parent company Disney, who have not responded to requests for comment from The Associated Press.

Sesame Street has introduced Julia, a four-year-old character with autism.
Along with Julia, the show has also created a site for parents and children with information about autism and started the See Amazing in All Children campaign.

The late Richard Hunt (one of the four original Muppeteers) would have been 65 yesterday. Don Music, composer, is a classic Sesame Street Muppet who was taken off the show because of his constant head banging. What's up with that?! Enjoy this bit where Don and Kermit work out the lyrics.

A few weeks back, GAFBO caught wind of a Sesame Street “Word of the Day” sketch where the word was ‘moustache.’ This got us thinking. In the wonderful world of the Muppets which includes, but is not limited to, The Muppet Show (and movies), Sesame Street, and Fraggle Rock; who rocks the greatest facial hair?

The Fraggle Rock movie has been a long time coming. We last wrote about the development of the movie back in 2012, but it's been in the works since 2005. However, it looks like the movie gathering a bit more momentum and it's added a big star to its cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

ABC is filming a proof of concept for a revival of The Muppets, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The Big Bang Theory co-creator Bill Prady is co-writing the script for a pilot presentation that sources say could be unspooled at May's upfront presentation to Madison Avenue advertisers. Sources tell THR that the project, if all goes well, could go straight to series.

Meet computer H14, a Jim Henson creation from 1963. The film was commissioned by AT&T to be shown at a corporate get-together, to spread the word that the company's new computer systems that actually communicated with each other were the wave of the future, and nothing to be frightened about.

The Muppet was funny in that unmistakably Henson way - equipped with exhaust pipes and a flashing red light and some sort of rotating mechanical arm reminiscent of a railroad crossing - and it had already worked the seminar circuit, appearing at shows in Germany for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Information Agency, the government organization that once spread U.S. propaganda overseas. Plus, Jim Henson understood the task at hand.

Henson and his partner Jerry Juhl “were certainly intrigued by technology and the development of computers,” says Falk. “But they also felt very strongly about the difference between man and machines. There was a celebration of technology, but also a recognition about its lack of human qualities, like understanding and creativity.” Henson gives H14 the superhuman ability to digest “vast oceans of information,” but it still needs humans to wind him up - and repair him when he explodes into tiny pieces.

Kevin Clash -- the man known as the voice of Elmo -- has taken a leave of absence from Sesame Street in the wake of allegations he had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy, TMZ has learned... allegations Clash adamantly denies.